"The Professor (novel) The Professor, A Tale. was the first novel by Charlotte Brontë. It was originally written before ""Jane Eyre"" and rejected by many publishing houses, but was eventually published posthumously in 1857 by approval of Arthur Bell Nicholls, who accepted the task of reviewing and editing of the novel. The book is the story of a young man, William Crimsworth, and is a first-person narrative from his perspective. It describes his maturation, his career as a teacher in Brussels, and his personal relationships. The story starts off with a letter William has sent to his friend Charles, detailing"
"he established at Cowan Bridge the Clergy Daughters' School for low-cost education of daughters of poorer members of the clergy. This school later moved to Casterton where it continued as the independent Casterton School, and subsequently (from 2013) the preparatory department of Sedbergh School. One of Sedbergh School's three girls houses is named Carus after Carus Wilson, following the arrival of pupils from Casterton Senior School. The author Charlotte Brontë was a pupil at Cowan Bridge in 1824/25 and attended Sunday services at Tunstall church. She featured the school in ""Jane Eyre"" as ""Lowood"". She based her character Robert Brocklehurst"
"one of many ill-treatments she is accused of being bad blood and in an attempt to get rid of her, Jane is sent to Lowood School by Mrs Reed. Like Gateshead Hall, Lowood School is a cold institution. Jane’s only friend at school, Helen Burns, dies and Jane is left alone once again. Resolving to become independent, she takes on the profession of a governess. At the age of eighteen, she is able to secure a position as governess to a girl at Thornfield Hall. Here Jane learns that her pupil, a French girl named Adele, is the ward of"
"was one of ten children, born to evangelical parents. His brother Edward (1795–1860) was also a churchman. In 1815 he married Anne Neville (who died a month before him), the daughter of Major-General Charles Neville. He had seven sons and six daughters; twelve of these thirteen are recorded as surviving into adulthood. William Carus Wilson William Carus Wilson (7 July 1791 – 30 December 1859) was an English churchman and the founder and editor of the long-lived monthly ""The Children's Friend"". He was the inspiration for Mr Brocklehurst, the autocratic head of Lowood School, depicted by Charlotte Brontë in her"
"of several of the children who died at the school. Charlotte described the abuses, the typhus epidemic in which seven pupils died, the scandal which followed, and subsequent reform of the school in ""Jane Eyre"". The character of Helen Burns is based closely on Maria. Reverend Brocklehurst is a portrait of William Carus Wilson, who managed the school in the Brontës' time. Women readers who had attended the school confirmed Charlotte's account. In a letter to her publisher W.S. Williams, Charlotte describes overhearing an elderly clergyman talk about reading ""Jane Eyre"" and saying ""Why, they have got Cowan Bridge School,"
"about reading ""Jane Eyre"" and saying ""Why, they have got Cowan Bridge School, and Mr. Wilson here, I declare! and Miss Evans."" She says, ""He had known them all. I wondered whether he would recognise the portraits, and was gratified to find that he did, and that, moreover, he pronounced them faithful and just. He said, too, that Mr. Wilson 'deserved the chastisement he had got.'"" The connection between Lowood and the Clergy Daughters' School was made explicit in ""The Life of Charlotte Brontë"" published in 1857 after Brontë's death. The following year Carus-Wilson's son William Wilson Carus-Wilson wrote his"
"at Blackwood. She is first visited by the spirit of Emily Brontë or Ellis but is later implied to be used by the violent Marquis de Sade. Jules Duret - Madame Duret's son and Blackwood's music teacher. While he is at first in line with his mother's plans, he vows to help the girls escape after he discovers the horrific fates of all of Madame Duret's previous students. Madame Duret - The headmistress of Blackwood. She believes that she is called to help the great masters of the past continue their work from the grave by using the students in"
"in the attempt to save his wife, are married. Edward's sight is partially restored as Jane shows him their new-born son. According to ""Variety"", ""Most of the novel's unforgettable Gothic incidents are here: the orphaned Jane's cruel treatment at the hands of her aunt and her spoiled, sadistic cousin; further humiliation at the Lowood school, where she is befriended by the angelic Helen Burns, who then departs --- lickety-split --- to join her immortal brethren; and, of course, Jane's great, doomed romance with her employer Edward Fairfax Rochester (James Barbour), dark of brow and gloomy of spirit, but sexy as"
"estranged grandmother’s dress, Jacob is sent away to a boarding school located in the wilderness and governed by the eccentric Dr. and Mrs. Sherman. There, Jacob meets his classmates: social outcasts which comprise heavily disfigured burn survivor, Phil; Tourette's sufferer, Frederic; autistic Elwood Ramsay; seemingly normal, adoptive twins, Lenny and Calvin; and cunning, manipulative Christine Holcomb, who was tricked and abandoned there by her parents. Their daily classes are administered under Dr. Sherman’s strict regime that consists of a chiefly Bible Studies curriculum and corporal punishments. Not long after the children have settled in, Frederic is discovered dead while half-naked"
"Cyril Norwood Sir Cyril M. Norwood (15 September 1875 – 13 March 1956) was an English educationalist who served as Headmaster of Bristol Grammar School and Harrow School and Master of Marlborough College as well as President of St John's College, Oxford. The son of the Reverend Samuel Norwood, of Whalley, Lancashire, Norwood was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School and St. John's, Oxford. After passing the Home Civil Service exam, he joined the admiralty in 1899, but left in 1901 to pursue a career in education. He was a classics master at Leeds Grammar School (1901–1906), before serving as"
"age and that she hid in the woods with her doll to escape visitors. But she seems to have enjoyed attending Madame St. Quentin's School for Girls at Reading Abbey, which was run by French émigrés and was the same school Jane Austen had attended. Sherwood seems to have had a generally happy childhood, marred only by the intrusion of the French Revolution and the upheavals it caused throughout Europe. Sherwood spent some of her teenage years in Lichfield, where she enjoyed the company of the naturalist Erasmus Darwin, the educational reformer Richard Lovell Edgeworth, his daughter Maria Edgeworth, and"
"children at Lowood Institute dressing by rushlight in the early morning in ""Jane Eyre"" (once about a third of the way into chapter 5, and again at the beginning of chapter 6). Washington Irving mentions a ""farthing rushlight"" in the short story ""The Boar's Head Tavern, Eastcheap,"" which is part of ""The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent."" It also features as a cheap nightlight in his ghost story ""Dolph Heyliger,"" in which the protagonist spends the night in a haunted house with nothing but a rushlight to illuminate a dilapidated room: ""The rushlight, which stood in the centre of"
"is based on Rev. William Carus Wilson (1791–1859), the Evangelical minister who ran the school. Additionally, John Reed's decline into alcoholism and dissolution recalls the life of Charlotte's brother Branwell, who became an opium and alcohol addict in the years preceding his death. Finally, like Jane, Charlotte became a governess. These facts were revealed to the public in ""The Life of Charlotte Brontë"" (1857) by Charlotte's friend and fellow novelist Elizabeth Gaskell. The Gothic manor of Thornfield Hall was probably inspired by North Lees Hall, near Hathersage in the Peak District. This was visited by Charlotte Brontë and her friend"
"Inspector Lestrade Inspector G. Lestrade, or Mr. Lestrade ( ), is a fictional character appearing in several of the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle used the name of a friend from his days at the University of Edinburgh, a Saint Lucian medical student, Joseph Alexandre Lestrade. In ""The Adventure of the Cardboard Box"", Lestrade's first initial is revealed to be G. He is described as “a little sallow rat-faced, dark-eyed fellow” in ""A Study in Scarlet"" and “a lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking”,"" in ""The Boscombe Valley Mystery"". In the popular London media, Lestrade"
"right. Molly Meacher, Baroness Meacher Molly Christine Meacher, Baroness Meacher, (born Molly Christine Reid, 15 May 1940), known from 2000 to 2006 as Lady Layard, is a British life peer and former social worker. Meacher was educated at the Berkhamsted School for Girls, the University of York, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in economics in 1970, and the University of London, where she received a Certificate of Qualification in Social Work in 1980. She worked for the Social Services in North London and for the Mental Health Foundation in the 1980s. From 1991 to 1994 Meacher was chief"
"student at the university) has suffered a peculiar nightmare involving a severed head. She meets Mrs. Dimble, the wife of one of her former tutors, who is being evicted due to sale of land to the N.I.C.E. When Jane talks about her dreams, Mrs. Dimble leads her to seek counsel from a Miss Ironwood who lives in the Manor in the nearby town of St. Anne's. An argument between Jane and Mark shows how their marriage is deteriorating. Lord Feverstone introduces Mark to the N.I.C.E., where he becomes acquainted with the top brass at their headquarters at Belbury, near Edgestow."
"Clongowes Wood College Clongowes Wood College is an independent boarding school for boys, located near Clane in County Kildare, Ireland. The school was founded by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1814, and featured prominently in James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel ""A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"". One of five Jesuit schools in Ireland, it had 445 students in 2017/2018 when the fees were €19,500 per annum. The school's current headmaster is Chris Lumb (2015–present). He is the first lay headmaster of Clongowes in its 204-year history. Leonard Maloney was the previous headmaster (2004–2015) Michael Sheil retired as"
"cancer. Elizabeth decided to move permanently to Haworth to act as housekeeper. After several attempts to seek a new spouse, Patrick came to terms with widowhood at the age of 47, and spent his time visiting the sick and the poor, giving sermons, communion, and extreme unction, leaving the three sisters Emily, Charlotte, Anne, and their brother Branwell alone with their aunt and a maid, Tabitha Aykroyd (Tabby), who tirelessly recounted local legends in her Yorkshire dialect while preparing the meals. Brontë was responsible for the building of a Sunday school in Haworth, which he opened in 1832. He remained"
"July 1824, Maria, 11 and Elizabeth, nearly 9, joined the Cowan Bridge School with Charlotte and Emily following soon after in September. The food provided by the school was generally poorly cooked and unhealthy, and the cook was reported to be ""careless, dirty, and wasteful"". She was not academic, and while the school records show that Maria, Charlotte and Emily were to be trained to be governesses, Elizabeth's destiny was listed as 'housekeeper'. Accordingly, Mr. Brontë did not pay the extra £3 a year for Elizabeth to learn French, music and drawing, that he did for his other three girls."
"father lives with them, and is treated by Jenny as a child. Lizzie has caught the eye of the work-shy barrister, Eugene Wrayburn, who first noticed her when accompanying his friend Mortimer Lightwood to the home of Gaffer Hexam. Wrayburn falls in love with her. However, he soon gains a violent rival in Bradley Headstone, the schoolmaster of Charley Hexam. Charley wants his sister to be under obligation to no one but him, and tries to arrange lessons for her with Headstone, only to find that Wrayburn has already engaged a teacher for both Lizzie and Jenny. Headstone quickly becomes"
"natural curiosity and conscience rather than delinquency. Now with a third incident a judge (Torin Thatcher) orders her to send the boy to an Episcopal boarding school where Dr. Edward Hewitt (Burton) is headmaster, and his wife Claire (Eva Marie Saint) teaches. Edward and Claire are happily married with two student sons, but their life has become routine and their youthful idealism has been tamed by the need to raise funds for the school and please wealthy benefactors. At an initial interview, there is a momentary immediate attraction between Laura and Edward, but this quickly turns into tension brought on"
"of millionaire George Jay Gould I, son of railroad tycoon Jay Gould. Lakewood is also home to Beth Medrash Govoha, a Haredi Yeshiva with 5,000 students, making it one of the largest yeshivas in the world. Stockton University has a campus located in Manahawkin offering undergraduate and graduate college of the arts, sciences and professional studies of the New Jersey state system of higher education. The state's largest suburban school district, Toms River Regional Schools, is located in the county. Toms River is also home to Ocean County's only Roman Catholic High School, Monsignor Donovan High School, operated by the"
"airs and graces of the Golden Age of Detection of the 1920s and 1930s, taken them to heart, but updated them to the period of the 1960s."" List from Elizabeth Lemarchand Elizabeth Wharton Lemarchand (1906–2000) was an English writer of detective novels and short stories. She was an educator by trade, employed as deputy headmistress of the Godolphin School, Salisbury from 1943 until 1960, and as acting headmistress in 1959. She then moved to Lowther College, North Wales, where she was headmistress from 1960 until 1961. Her novels feature CDI Tom Pollard and his assistant Sergeant Toye of Scotland Yard."
"""Joe Lobes"" Lobenick, leaving him severely traumatized, and deleting the list of safety patrol until he recovers. The teachers try to convince Principal Tromp to put Scout on safety patrol, as he is the only one left on the list. Tromp agrees, but gets the school boundaries changed, transferring Scout to Laurelview Middle School. Laurelview is currently experiencing petty theft, on a grand scale. The perpetrators are two members of the staff: Mrs. Day, the lunchlady, and the janitor, Mr. Miller. Working with them are the school's safety patrol (who are also bullies), led by the principal's son, Kent Marlowe."
"a 30-year-old teacher at a local private secondary school and his attempts to, by hook or by crook, accomplish the seduction of Jenny; all this against a backdrop of Jenny's new teaching job, Patrick's work and his leisure time with flatmate and colleague Graham and their new acquaintance, the well-off and somewhat older man-about-town, Julian Ormerod. The novel opens with Jenny Bunn's arrival at her lodging-house. She's a young, strikingly beautiful, Northern girl who has moved to a small town outside London, to take her first teaching job. Jenny has rented a room in the home of middle-aged couple, Dick"
"have a running grudge against Brodie, who has tenure and had been at Marcia Blaine for six years prior to Mackay being appointed headmistress. Brodie boasts to her girls that the only way she will stop teaching is if she is assassinated. Besides working with her girls, Jean catches the eye of music teacher/church choirmaster Gordon Lowther (Gordon Jackson), with whom she and her girls spend a lot of time at his home in Cramond, a seaside village on the outskirts of Edinburgh. Brodie sometimes spends the night with Lowther, although she tries to conceal this from the girls. Lowther"
"Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien, Seamus Heaney and Stephen King, among many others. Charlotte Brontë's character Jane Eyre is an important figure in illustrating heroines and their place within the Hero's Journey. Charlotte Brontë sought to craft a unique female character that the term ""Heroine"" could fully encompass. ""Jane Eyre"" is a ""Bildungsroman"", a coming-of-age story common in Victorian fiction, also referred to as an apprenticeship novel, that show moral and psychological development of the protagonist as they grow into adults. Jane being a Middle-class Victorian woman would face entirely different obstacles and conflict than her male counterparts of"
"Elizabeth Lemarchand Elizabeth Wharton Lemarchand (1906–2000) was an English writer of detective novels and short stories. She was an educator by trade, employed as deputy headmistress of the Godolphin School, Salisbury from 1943 until 1960, and as acting headmistress in 1959. She then moved to Lowther College, North Wales, where she was headmistress from 1960 until 1961. Her novels feature CDI Tom Pollard and his assistant Sergeant Toye of Scotland Yard. The first, ""Death of an Old Girl"", was published in 1967; it was followed by 16 others. Stylistically, Lemarchand has been called ""a novelist who has absorbed the general"
"76 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 1930s Edinburgh, six ten-year-old girls, Sandy, Rose, Mary, Jenny, Monica, and Eunice are assigned Miss Jean Brodie, who describes herself as being ""in my prime,"" as their teacher. Miss Brodie, determined that they shall receive an education in the original sense of the Latin verb ""educere,"" ""to lead out,"" gives her students lessons about her personal love life and travels, promoting art history, classical studies, and fascism. Under her mentorship, these six girls whom Brodie singles out as the elite group among her students—known as"
"Thornfield Hall Thornfield Hall is the home of the male romantic lead, Edward Fairfax Rochester, in the novel ""Jane Eyre"" by Charlotte Brontë, where much of the action takes place. Brontë uses the depiction of Thornfield in a manner consistent with the gothic tone of the novel as a whole. An isolated mansion of unspecified size, the house has a number of apparently unused rooms that become important to the narrative during the Bertha Mason passages. The Hall's gloomy character also expresses and amplifies the sense of Mr. Rochester's depression and malaise before he falls in love with Jane. In"
"Rookwood School Rookwood School is a non-selective independent day and boarding school for children aged 3 to 16, located on a campus off Weyhill Road in Andover, Hampshire, England. Due to its proximity to Marlborough Lines Land HQ, a few of its pupils are children of international military personnel. The school was founded in 1934 as a girls' school and moved to its current site in 1946. Boys were admitted to the Senior school in 2003. 2017–present Mr A Kirk-Burgess 2016 - 2017 Dr M Whalley 2015/16 Winter term Mr David Bown (acting) 2010-2015 Mrs Louise Whetstone 2000-2010 Mrs Margaret"
"in various animals, including humans, and Peter Brontë Gatenby, the Medical Director of the UN. Notes Footnotes Bibliography Brontë family The Brontës () were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848), and Anne (1820–1849), are well known as poets and novelists. Like many contemporary female writers, they originally published their poems and novels under male pseudonyms: Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Their stories immediately attracted attention for their passion and originality. Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"" was the"
"houses named after famous 19th-century female authors - Austen (after Jane Austen), Bronte (after Emily Brontë), Eliot (after George Eliot) and Shelley (after Mary Shelley), the latter being a new house in the 2012/13 academic year. Each house has a member of staff in charge of it, a captain from Year 13 (upper sixth form) and a vice-captain from Year 12 (lower sixth form). After 11 years of being headteacher at the school, Diana Woods retired at the end of the 2008/09 term. She was replaced by the deputy headteacher at Wolverhampton Girls School, Dr Alison Bruton, who is also"